Place as material culture : objects, geographies and the construction of time / edited by Dragoş Gheorghiu and George Nash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gheorghiu, Dragos.

Nash, George

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology.

Material culture.

Time.

Physical Description:

xiv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

Chapter 14 in French.

Summary:

The present book explores the complexity of the past, by analysing the relationships between place, territory, the material value of objects and landscapes, time and ritual, during archaeological investigations. It presents the archaeology of place as a series of interconnecting and interactive relationships. It is clear that things and places do not emerge without some form of agency, usually through the concept of material manipulation, coupled with elaboration, innovation and time. Depending on the raw material used and the process of manipulation and its relationship with the environment, materiality gains value. How do we as modern humans work within the complexity of place, materiality, time, and ritual? Traditional in archaeological discourse is the need to describe place, albeit in an empiricist and banal way. Discourse is sometimes followed by a more fruitful and interpretive account. However, these accounts tend to ignore human emotion that is bound-up in place, for example the ritualized and symbolic meanings that place holds. This book explores the significance of geography, place and the materiality that place holds, and challenges many of the tradition norms that in the past have trivialized landscape archaeology. The book is divided into 14 thought-provoking and crafted chapters and will be an ideal companion to anyone involved in the social sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Prehistoric Place: Studies in Material Culture, Time and Space / Ezra B. W. Zubrow Zubrow, Ezra B. W. 13

Chapter 2 A Place in Time: Temporal Dimensions of the Human Experience in a Material World / Roberta Robin Dods Dods, Roberta Robin 34

Chapter 3 Space and Time as Cultural Artefacts: Blackpool as Heterotopy and Heterochrony / Paul Bouissac Bouissac, Paul 55

Chapter 4 Hunter-Gatherer Territories in the European Upper Palaeolithic / François Djindjian Djindjian, François 65

Chapter 5 Experience and Perception of Memorable Places: Lithic Scatters and Mapping the British Neolithic / Clive Jonathon Bond Bond, Clive Jonathon 86

Chapter 6 The Importance of Acoustics and Illumination when Creating a Chronotope: Reflections about Two Middle Neolithic Palisades from Southern Sweden / Raimond Thörn Thörn, Raimond 123

Chapter 7 Concepts of Space, Place and Time in The late Neolithic Carpathian Basin: The Geometry of Rondels of the Lengyel Complex / Emília Pásztor Pásztor, Emília, Judit P. Barna Barna, Judit P. 134

Chapter 8 Space and Place as Artefact: On the Life and Death of Tell Settlements of the South Eastern Europe Chalcolithic / Dragos Gheorghiu Gheorghiu, Dragos 163

Chapter 9 The Mountains during The Bronze Age in Southern and Central Italy: Spaces Becoming Places / Cristiana Ruggini Ruggini, Cristiana, Valentina Copat Copat, Valentina 183

Chapter 10 Art for those Visiting the Underworld: An Appraisal of the Later Prehistoric Menhir of Robin Hood's Stone, Allerton, Liverpool / George Nash Nash, George 213

Chapter 11 Materiality of Place, Performative Time and Mortuary Space as Locality in the Early Iron Age of Southwest Germany / James A. Johnson Johnson, James A., Seth A. Schneider Schneider, Seth A. 231

Chapter 12 The Power and the Glory: Hillforts, Ironworking and the Monumental Landscape in the Early Iron Age of Central and South Eastern Slovenia / Philip Mason Mason, Philip 258

Chapter 13 How Natural Are Natural Places? Challenging Stereotypes in tire Interpretation of Landscape in Iron Age Veneto, Italy / Sarah de Nardi Nardi, Sarah de 277

Chapter 14 Relationship between People, Space and Places during the Iron Age: Exploitation of Coastal Space and Resources through the Island Settlements in Western France / Anna Baudry Baudry, Anna, Marie-Yvane Daire Daire, Marie-Yvane 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1443842613

9781443842617

OCLC:

819379108

Publisher Number:

99953469476